Supreme Council for Youth and Sports assistant secretary general and Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) secretary general Abdulrahman Askar asserted the committee’s support to the Bahrain Fencing Federation in hosting the Asian and World Fencing Championships in the second half of this month.
This came at his meeting with Bahrain Fencing Federation president Shaikh Ibrahim bin Salman Al Khalifa and secretary general Saleh Faraj, who briefed Askar on their preparations to host the prestigious events.
Askar hailed the federation for bringing the two events to Bahrain and also praised the arrangement.
Shaikh Ibrahim thanked the BOC for its support and expressed the federation’s keenness to make the two championships memorable.